Headline Roundup • September 22nd, 2025
Trump Admin Cancels Annual Food Insecurity Survey
Summary from the AllSides News Team
The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) terminated future Household Food Security Reports, according to a press release published on Saturday.
The Details: The report surveyed 40,000 households each December, asking questions such as, “In the last 12 months, did you ever eat less than you felt you should because there wasn't enough money for food? (Yes/No).” The 2023 report concluded that 13.5% of US households were food insecure. The 2024 report is still set to be released on October 22, 2025.
Key Quote: The press release stated, “These redundant, costly, politicized, and extraneous studies do nothing more than fear monger. For 30 years, this study… failed to present anything more than subjective, liberal fodder. Trends in the prevalence of food insecurity have remained virtually unchanged, regardless of an over 87% increase in SNAP spending between 2019 - 2023. USDA will continue to prioritize statutory requirements and where necessary, use the bevy of more timely and accurate data sets available to it.”
How The Media Covered It: News media on the left covered the move more prominently than media on the right; however, Associated Press (Left) exhibited a lack of transparency by linking to neither the press release nor the survey. AP noted that poverty rates dipped before President Donald Trump’s current presidency, but the outlet also reported, “The Congressional Budget Office has estimated that the tax and spending cuts bill Republicans muscled through Congress in July means 3 million people would not qualify for food stamps, also known as SNAP benefits.” The Wall Street Journal (Center) described the report as “widely used by federal, state and local policymakers to make funding decisions for food-assistance programs and to evaluate how well those programs work.” Washington Examiner (Lean Right) highlighted the report’s inception under former President Bill Clinton (D).
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Featured Coverage of this Story
The Department of Agriculture announced it will stop publishing reports on food security in the United States, which the agency said have consistently been rife with “liberal fodder.”
In a press release, the USDA trashed the annual reports, which began under former Democratic President Bill Clinton, as “redundant, costly, politicized, and extraneous studies [that] do nothing more than fear monger.”
“The U.S. Department of Agriculture announced the termination of future Household Food Security Reports,” the agency said...
Katherine Emery/The Maine Monitor via AP
The Trump administration is ending the federal government’s annual report on hunger in America, stating that it had become “overly politicized” and “rife with inaccuracies.”
The decision comes two and a half months after President Donald Trump signed legislation sharply reducing food aid to the poor. The Congressional Budget Office has estimated that the tax and spending cuts bill Republicans muscled through Congress in July means 3 million people would not qualify for food stamps, also known as SNAP benefits.
The decision to scrap the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Household...
The Trump administration is canceling an annual government effort to gather data on how many Americans struggle to get enough food.
The data, which is collected each December and analyzed by the U.S. Agriculture Department, measures food insecurity across states and demographic groups.
The data has been collected every year since the mid-1990s and is widely used by federal, state and local policymakers to make funding decisions for food-assistance programs and to evaluate how well those programs work...
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